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The Elastic Platform Control Plane team is looking to add a Senior Software Engineer to evolve and operate our Elastic Cloud offering control plane services (Self-Managed, Hosted, and Serverless), and accelerate our embrace of Kubernetes. Our distributed services constitute the orchestration layer of the Elastic Cloud and allow users to build new Elastic Clusters or expand existing ones. Our services run on multiple cloud provider platforms and are built on Docker, Kubernetes, Go/Scala, and custom orchestration architectures.

Our team is a dynamic and dedicated group of engineers based all around the world, covering a multitude of countries and time zones. We are solving hard problems with creativity and ingenuity, and we have fun along the way. This is your chance to be part of a team with great inner-chemistry and help us drive our engineering efforts and make history as you contribute to Elastic’s future.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will be responsible for technical design and work in key functional areas of Elastic’s Cloud offerings. You will participate in coding, crafting solutions, debugging complex failure scenarios, and prioritizing bug fixes and features. You will analyze the current system, its strengths and limitations, and think of ways in which to refactor our services to improve our operations and quality of our service. You will also be part of an oncall rotation to address operational events in a timely manner.

What You Will Be Doing

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the codebases that power our Elastic Cloud offerings.
• Operate our control plane systems by participating in our oncall rotation and addressing customer support requests.
• Lead standard processes for back-end development with strong ownership.
• Contribute to our technical plans and direction and across other product teams in Elastic.
• Be part of a distributed team of engineers from all across the globe.
• Collaborate with other teams within Elastic when working on cross-team efforts.
• Collaborate with Support engineers in diagnosing problems and coordinating with the Elasticsearch engineers the design of new features.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions with other engineers.
• Mentor new team members, both junior and senior ones.
• Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What You Bring Along

• Strong track record as a software engineer delivering high-quality code within teams.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design patterns.
• In-depth experience with the Scala and Go programming languages.
• Ability to own projects from beginning to end, from design to delivery.
• Ability to build and debug features with a broad impact, running on multiple machines.
• Deep passion for automation and for raising the quality bar.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Be self-motivated and highly organized.
• Bonus: Technical depth in one or more technologies relevant for SaaS (orchestration, networking, containers, etc.).
• Bonus: Practical knowledge of Elasticsearch.

 

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$133,100—$210,600 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:$159,900—$252,900 USDAdditional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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